Ecstatic Poetic Tradition

A Critical Study from the Ancients through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Tagore

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

This work is not only a general inquiry into ecstatic states of consciousness and an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition but also an intensive study of five representative poets--Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, and Tagore. In a refreshingly original, wide-ranging engagement with concepts in psychology, religion, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology and history, this book demonstrates that the poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy represent an ancient, ubiquitous theory of poetry that continues to influence writers in the current century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:358 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786478163

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D.J. Moores is an associate professor of literature at National University in San Diego, California.

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Table of ContentsPrefacePart One: Ecstatic Beginnings1. The Overture2. Ecstatic States of ConsciousnessPart Two: Historical Outline3. The Ancient Poetics and Aesthetics of Ecstasy4. Autochthonous, Non-Western and Modern Ecstatic PoetryPart Three: Critical Studies5. The Whirling Dervish: Rumi6. The Power of Imagination: William Wordsworth7. The Body Ecstatic: Walt Whitman8. The Cracked Mind: Emily Dickinson9. The Wise Man of the East: Rabindranath TagorePart Four: Critical Implications10. Extra-literary Implications11. Literary Implications: A Problematic Rapture12. Ecstasy and the Eudaimonic TurnChapter NotesBibliographyIndex